Africa is the world’s second largest continent spread over an area of 11‚668‚545 sq. miles‚ which makes up for 6% of the Earth’s total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area on the surface of the Earth. Africa is second only to Asia with more than 900 million people inhabiting the continent which is approximately 14% of the world’s total population. The continent is bound by Mediterranean Sea to the north‚ the Suez Canal and Red Sea in the northeast‚ which separate it from the neighboring
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Wilton Hayward Professor Brian Parlopiano History 101 April 29‚ 2014 The Scramble for Africa During the 1800s colonization reached one of its peaks‚ almost every European country was scrambling for any un-colonized lands. The one continent that none of them had really made their mark on was the African continent. Africa was very abundant in natural resources‚ which made the European countries more eager to be the ones to colonize it first. Whether it be gold‚ iron‚ cotton or ivory all of the countries
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South Asia‚ which consists of the nations of Bangladesh‚ Bhutan‚ India‚ Maldives‚ Nepal‚ Pakistan‚ and Sri Lanka‚ is ethnically diverse‚ with more than 2‚000 ethnic entities with populations ranging from hundreds of millions to small tribal groups. South Asia has been invaded and settled by many ethnic groups over the centuries - including various Dravidian‚ Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups - and amalgamation of Dravidian‚ Indo-Aryan and native societies has produced composite cultures with many common
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THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist‚ novelist ‚ linguist‚ literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee‚ which upholds his belief that‚ “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices in
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poverty never seems to go down‚ despite decades of work by African governments and NGOs‚ outside NGOs‚ and foreign government aid programs. What causes this entrenched poverty‚ on a continent rich with natural resources? Unfortunately‚ poverty in Africa doesn ’t result from just one or two causes. There are a number of different factors at work‚ all interacting with one another‚ and making the problem of entrenched poverty extremely difficult to solve. Some of the major causes of poverty include:
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Ron Wildman History of Africa 161 April 24th‚ 2013 Professor Jack Mioff History of Africa Final Essay In 1993 Paul Johnson wrote an article titled “Colonialism’s Back-and Not a Moment too Soon.” In this article‚ he argued that colonialism was a good thing for Africa. He believed Africa was in need of foreign powers to intervene and govern the land. He said that the governments of different African nations were crumbling and the people were uncivilized. However‚ Johnson failed to recognize
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perspective. The colonization of Africa has a long history‚ and can be explained as being set in motion as early as 200 AD‚ with the migration of Bantu speaking Africans from central Africa to the south of Africa due to the agricultural boom and overpopulation of tribes‚ known as one of the largest human migrations in history (ref). Following the migration of the Bantu language group was the spread of Islam from 750 – 1500 AD‚ which was first accepted in West Africa by the Dya’ogo Dynasty. Following
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Name: Ongama Mtimka Student Number: 206516430 Programme Name: Masters in South African Politics and Political Economy Module Title and Code: Risk and Scenario Studies SLP 420 Title of Assignment: What are the most important forces driving global change. How will these forces shape the political economy of the world by 2014 and which of these forces are most likely to affect South Africa and why? This essay seeks to identify what the most important forces driving global change are; how these
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Neocolonialism: Exploitation of Africa Throughout the history of man‚ Africa has played an important part in the development of the world‚ through political‚ economic and social means. Recently‚ Africa and its people have been used more as a tool for other parts of the world for the development of their industries and economies. The recent trajectory of events has begun a period of Neocolonialism in Africa‚ in which the outside world has been scrutinized by Africans as exploiters of their land
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